#military laser

[53v3nfrn5]

The Lockheed AC-130 in action

Due to the cloud of smoke left behind after flares are released, this aircraft is widely known as “The Angel of Death”

[elliottkay]

Every show and film and book I grew up with presented the military as a place where you’d find yourself. The military could be good, could be bad, and all that “glory” stuff was clearly nonsense… but shared trials made you stronger and forged ride-or-die buddies for life. And hey, it’d pay for college.

Then I joined. It didn’t work out. Every day ranged from tedious to toxic, even when we did genuine good. I made one short-term friend in four years.

I still loved those stories, but none of them were ever about the guy who joins up and doesn’t find himself and never belongs—so I wrote it.

Poor Man’s Fight is a rockin’ space opera built on shattered dreams, student debt, and space pirates. Lots of space pirates. It’s funny, it’s sober, and you’ll want to hug Tanner Malone even when he’s covered in blood. The real enemies are always capitalism and toxic masculinity.

And then comes the war with the corporations that built this whole dystopia, because the enemy is still capitalism, even for the aliens.

On a brighter note, Tanner does make it out of the military and into college, becoming the Deadliest Unpaid Intern in the Galaxy… and the Resident Advisor for a freshman dorm full of chaos goblins.

(Cover art by Lee Moyer, Julie Dillon, Dan Watson, and Brittany Torres, for which I’m forever grateful.)

If you’ve made it this far, hopefully you’re looking for where to pick this up. They’re all available on ebook and Kindle Unlimited, and everything from Poor Man’s Fight to Last Man Out is also in paperback and audio.

And bonus: they’re cheap!

[nocternalrandomness]

ANG F-16 dropping a 2,000 pound GBU-24A/B laser guided bomb over the Utah Range

[frostyrose725]

Okay what the fuck so many people are following me for my laser and military reblog it has so many notes- everytime i log into tumblr its scary to see so many notes XD

So here's fun facts i guess

Purple lasers are the best for military practice, which is something the terminator got correct!

In the Vietnam war the US had a sort of heartbeat sensor that could detect people. (It was like one, it detected people.) But could be easily disabled using buckets off pee, it would go off if it detected pee so people would nail buckets full to trees.

In medieval warfare, archers used bows extremely skilled with them. So the meme of the knight getting shot in his eye slit was a thing that was although impressive not very note worthy amongst other archers, but this was their life, they lived and breathed their job, its all they did. (Pic related)

And finally.

In the military there is a thing called causality cards, these are used for training mainly for medics where you receive a pack of cards, draw one and the medic has to treat you accordingly, one is "laser burns to the face."

[daguerreotyping]

Cabinet card of a group of soldiers and their tailor posing with uniforms in progess, c. 1880s

[ophilosoraptoro]

Something Very EVIL Is Going on In Maui | We Have The Proof...

[jareofficial]

There should be a Portal 2 mod where you can punch things. On some Zeno Clash shit. That'd be cool I think.

[andi-o-geyser]

silly little man commuting from one job to his other less suspect job almost busted by the fucking cops, but don’t worry: he’s come prepared. more at 12

[tlaquetzqui]

“You wouldn’t use UV lasers, atmosphere is opaque to UV.”

You heard it here first folks, sunscreen is a scam.

Or, near UV, UVA (315–400 nm wavelength), still passes through air. In fact so does middle UV, UVB (280–315 nm), it just gets stopped by the ozone layer when it comes in from the sun—assuming the ozone layer above you is intact.

[blogspicyjalapenoblog]

“Going dark — ”

-Cpt. Price

[cilibi]

Me every time I watch someone find the original source of any of America’s current political crisis:

How could one terrible man do so much damage lasting for so long???

[of-fear-and-love]

Lamps, loudspeakers and laser beams - technology from The War of The Worlds (1953)

[ronthedunedain]

Something about directed-energy/high-energy laser weapons make them so unbelievable to me. Imagine hitting a pin-point target moving at roughly 1.5 km/sec for 3 seconds with an invisible laser beam and blowing a hole in it.

Slightly terrifying that they're already deployed too.

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

UK DragonFire laser weapon system test firing against an aerial target.